Definition of Less

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Definition of Less

Less

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Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.

Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.

A smaller portion or quantity.

The inferior, younger, or smaller.

To make less; to lessen.

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Less Quotations

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

Less Translations

less in Afrikaans is minder
less in Dutch is minder, min
less in French is petiot, moindre
less in German is wenig, weniger, geringer
less in Italian is minore, meno
less in Latin is minor
less in Norwegian is minus, mindre
less in Portuguese is menos
less in Spanish is menos, menor
less in Swedish is mindre

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